The borderlands of culture : Americo Paredes and the transnational imaginary / / Ramon Saldivar.

• Superior document: New Americanists
• Author: ProQuest (Firm); Saldivar, Ramon.
• TeilnehmendeR: ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2006
• Language: English
• Series: e-Duke books scholarly collection.; New Americanists.
• Physical Description: x, 525 p. :; ill., map.
• Other title: Acknowledgments --; Introduction : In memoriam --; History and remembrance as social aesthetics --; memory is all that matters" --; life in the borderlands --; Fictions of the transnational imaginary --; checkerboard of consciousness in George Washington Gomez --; Transnational modernisms : Paredes, Roosevelt, Rockwell, Bulosan, and the four freedoms --; Paredes and the modernist vernacular intellectuals : George I. Sanchez and Emma Tenayuca --; borders of modernity --; Bilingual aesthetics and the law of the heart --; Border subjects and transnational sites : The hammon and the beans and other stories --; Narrative and the idioms of race, nation, and identity --; postwar borderlands and the origins of the transnational imaginary : the occupation-era writings in Pacific stars and stripes and El universal --; shadow and the imaginary functioning of institutions --; Conclusion : A transsentimental journey --; Notes --; Works cited --; Index.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. [477]-502) and index.
• ISBN: 9780822387954; 0822387956; 0822337894 (pbk. : alk. paper); 0822337762 (alk. paper); 9780822337768 (alk. paper); 9780822337898 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Ramon Saldivar.